Life Insurance Policy Details

Introducing Guardian Life Insurance

With Guardian Life Insurance there is a range of insurance combinations to suit your needs. There’s Life insurance - providing lump sum cover in the event of death or Terminal Illness - which you can apply for on its own.

Plus there is a range of optional benefits that you can apply for with your Life Insurance:

Children’s Insurance – lump sum benefit is paid in the event of Accidental Death or injury or illness resulting in Paralysis, Blindness, Deafness, Total & Permanent Loss of Use of Two Limbs, Encephalitis, Meningitis or Major Head Trauma of the Insured Child;

Accidental Death Insurance – lump sum benefit is paid in the event of death as the result of an Accident. Whatever combination you choose, with Guardian Life Insurance, the Life Insured is protected 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, worldwide.

1. What is Life Insurance?

Life Insurance provides a benefit in the event that a Life Insured under the Policy suffers an Accidental Death or dies of natural causes, or is diagnosed with a Terminal Illness.

2. Life Insurance eligibility

You can apply for a Single Plan on your own life (Key Life Insured) or you can apply to include your spouse, partner, and/or de facto (Partner Life Insured) under your Policy (Joint Plan). You (and your Partner Life Insured, if applying) must be Australian Resident/s aged between 18 and 64 years of age.

3. Complimentary interim Accidental Death Insurance

If you apply for Insurance by phone, and we require further information to assess your application, you will automatically be provided with interim Insurance for up to 30 days against Accidental Death while we assess your application except in the circumstances explained under the heading “Accidental Death Insurance exclusions”. The amount of interim Accidental Death Insurance cover is the Life Insurance Benefit Amount you apply for subject to the maximum cover amount indicated in “Life Insurance Benefit Amount”. This cover is provided at no additional cost to you and is subject to the terms explained in the Guardian Life Insurance PDS.

Your interim Accidental Death Insurance cover will cease after 30 days, or on the Acceptance Date, whichever occurs first.

4. Life Insurance Benefit Amount

The minimum Benefit Amount is $100,000. The maximum Benefit Amount for a Life Insured under the Policy at the Commencement Date is:

Maximum Benefit Amount (at Commencement Date)

Current Age

Benefit Amount

18–44

$1,500,000

45–54

$800,000

55–59

$500,000

60–64

$300,000

If you are a Homemaker aged 18 to 44 (at Commencement Date) a maximum Benefit Amount of $1,000,000 applies.

When you apply with a Partner Life Insured, you both apply for individual sums insured based on the limits above.

5. Life Insurance benefit payment

We will pay the benefits explained below if the Life Insured suffers an insured event, namely death or Terminal Illness, while covered under the Policy except in the circumstances explained in “Life Insurance exclusions”.

We will pay the Life Insurance Benefit Amount as a lump sum on the death of a Life Insured. While assessing your claim, for deaths that are not the result of a self inflicted injury, we will advance $15,000 of the Life Insurance Benefit Amount to assist with the costs associated with funeral or other similar expenses without waiting for full claim proofs, but we must have satisfactory evidence of the Life Insured’s age and death.

Terminal Illness

We will pay the Life Insurance Benefit Amount as a lump sum if a Life Insured is diagnosed with a Terminal Illness while covered under the Policy.

Limit on benefits

The total benefits payable for a Life Insured under the Policy cannot exceed:

the maximum Benefit Amount for Life Insurance for the Life Insured’s age at the Commencement Date, plus

any automatic sum insured increases under the Policy.

If the Life Insured is covered under more than one Guardian Life Insurance Policy, we will apply this limit to the total of the benefits payable for the Life Insured under all Guardian Life Insurance Policies. Any reduction in the Benefit Amount will be applied to the Insurance most recently commenced and we will refund the premiums paid referable to the amount by which the Benefit Amount is reduced.

Only one Life Insurance Benefit Amount is payable per Life Insured.

The Life Insurance Benefit Amount will be reduced by the amount of:

any Total & Permanent Disability benefit paid for a Life Insured;

any Serious Illness Insurance benefit paid for a Life Insured; and

any advance payment of the Life Insurance Benefit Amount.

If we reduce the Life Insurance Benefit Amount, we will reduce the premiums accordingly.

6. Life Insurance premiums

Premiums are the cost of your Insurance. The premium you are required to pay when the Policy starts is shown in the Policy Schedule.

Your premium is calculated at each Policy Anniversary and is based on:

the age of each Life Insured at that time;

the Benefit Amount provided for each Life Insured;

the Insurance Plan chosen by you (Joint Plan or Single Plan); and

various factors which may affect the premium rating for each Life Insured such as gender, smoking status, state of health, family history, occupation and participation in hazardous activities.

When a Life Insured on the Policy attains age 99, the premium will stay the same for the remaining term of the Policy in respect of that Life Insured.

For a premium estimate you should contact a Guardian Insurance Consultant on 1300 709 560.

7. Life Insurance exclusions

We will not pay a Life Insurance benefit in respect of a Life Insured, if the Life Insured dies, or has a Terminal Illness, directly or indirectly as a result of a self-inflicted injury, within 13 months of:

the Acceptance Date; or

the date that any increase in cover starts (but only in respect of the increase); or

where we have agreed to reinstate the Policy after it was cancelled, the date on which we reinstate the Policy (reinstatement date).

We will not pay any benefits where we have agreed a special term with you in respect of your cover that specifically excludes the event or condition leading to the claim. Any such special term will be agreed with you before your Policy is issued and will appear on your Policy Schedule.

8. Life Insurance start and end

If your application for Life Insurance is accepted by us, cover starts for a Life Insured on the Acceptance Date set out in the Policy Schedule. Your first premium is deducted from the Commencement Date, which is also set out in the Policy Schedule.

We guarantee to renew your Life Insurance (provided you pay your premiums when due) for life.

Life Insurance ends for a Life Insured when the first of the following occurs:

the date of payment of a death or Terminal Illness claim for that Life Insured;

the date you cancel the Policy; or

the date we cancel the Policy.

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